Check out all the movies and TV series coming out on week 4 and find out the readings that inspired them.


The Peasants. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 1909 book
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The Peasants
Władysław Stanisław Reymont, 1909
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Dorota Kobiela, 2023

Employing a team of talented animators and painters who meticulously craft each frame by hand, Kobiela brings to life the adaptation of a Nobel Prize-winning novel. This narrative revolves around a young Polish peasant woman in the early 20th century whose decision to marry an older, wealthy man sets off a chain of disruptive events.


Origin. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, 2020
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Ava DuVernay, 2023

This untold system that has molded the United States is documented, tracing how contemporary lives are delineated by a structured hierarchy of human distinctions.


Which Brings Me to You. Poster of the 2024 movie and cover of the 2005 book
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Which Brings Me to You
Steve Almond, 2005
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Peter Hutchings, 2024

Two individuals who’ve experienced romantic disappointments cross paths at a wedding and come close to a spontaneous encounter in the coatroom before deciding to take a step back. They make an agreement to openly share their past experiences, hoping that this connection could be genuine.

“It was really important to me that people would experience the same feelings from the movie as they did from the book.”

PABLO BERGER (Filmmaker)